Ensure your attachments donât get blocked by Outlook â discover size limits, smart workarounds, and why Piixoo is your smarter email automation partner.
đ What Is Outlookâs Attachment Size Limit?
- Outlook restricts total email size (attachments + message) to:
- 20 MB for Outlook.com, Gmail, and similar services
- 10 MB for most business (Exchange) accounts
- Microsoft 365 users may have higher limits (up to 150 MB), depending on their admin settings
đ Why These Limits Exist
- Large emails slow down servers and may be rejected
- Attachment encoding increases file size by about 33%
- Keeping file size low helps avoid delivery failures and bouncebacks
đ§ Four Easy Workarounds
â Compress Your Attachments
- Use ZIP or 7-Zip to shrink file size
- Lightweight add-ons can help compress email files directly inside Outlook
đ Split Large Files
- Divide your file into smaller chunks under 10 MB
- Send multiple emails or combine files using tools once delivered
âïž Use Cloud Links Instead of Attachments
- Upload your file to a cloud service and share a link
- Keeps emails light, clean, and more deliverable
âïž Advanced: Change Outlook Registry Settings
- For advanced users, Outlookâs attachment size limit can be adjusted via system registry
- Useful in corporate environments (Exchange or Microsoft 365)
đ Send Smarter with Piixoo Integration
Instead of battling limits, let Piixoo do the heavy lifting:
- Converts files into trackable cloud linksâno attachment needed
- Keeps every cold email under safe limits, maximizing deliverability
- Offers warm-up + sequence automation + file tracking in one single platform
With Piixoo:
- You avoid bouncebacks from oversized messages
- You boost sender reputation with clean, lightweight emails
- You centralize all your cold outreach effortsâno add-ons, no headaches
đ§ Pro Tips for Modern Email Outreach
- Donât attach filesâembed smart, secure links
- Keep outreach volume under control to protect your domain
- Use warm-up and inbox rotation tools to scale outreach without deliverability loss
All of this is built into Piixooâno hacks or extra tools required.
â Final Thoughts
Outlook limits are realâbut they’re no match for smart senders.
With Piixoo, you eliminate size issues and automate your entire cold email journeyâfrom file sharing to warm-up to inbox reporting.
Your outreach stays simple, compliant, and scalable.